Apple app store algorithm revealed
Monday, August 18, 2025 by Austin Harris
Under mounting regulatory pressure from the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), Apple Inc. has made a landmark move by publicly disclosing the internal workings of the App Store’s recommendation algorithm for the first time. The release of the new document, titled “Store Services Tiers,” is being hailed by industry observers as a major tu...
Best practices to avoid being removed from the Apple App Store
Tuesday, March 12, 2019 by Richard Harris
For any app developer, developing a top-ranking app on Apple’s App Store would be a career highlight. Yet thanks to Apple doubling down on user privacy, even popular apps like Facebook have been taken offline. For developers, it’s increasingly important to stay abreast of rapidly-changing privacy, compliance and policy changes to avoid a similar fate -the dr...
The impact of fake retail apps hitting the Apple App Store this year
Tuesday, November 8, 2016 by Austin Harris
Holiday retail woes have hit a little early this year, with hundreds of fake retail and product apps appearing in Apple’s App Store recently. The New York Times reports counterfeiters have disguised apps as retail chains like Dollar Tree and Foot Locker, department stores like Nordstrom and even luxury brands like Jimmy Choo. With Apple known to have a st...
Developers Experiencing Apple App Store Upload Trouble With App Thinning: Tech Note 2432
Friday, September 9, 2016 by Richard Harris
If you’ve been experiencing issues trying to get your app to Apple in the past couple of days, you aren’t alone. We are hearing rumbles from around the Internet that Apple engineers might be fighting an issue surrounding bitcode (enabled or disabled) during app thinning. It’s something that I experienced myself over the past 24 hours.The message most are receiving looks...
New Apple App Store Review Guidelines
Friday, September 2, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Apple has announced that the Apple App Store Review Guidelines have been updated to include information on offering in-app digital subscriptions, SiriKit, and iMessage. iOS Developers planning on releasing apps for the upcoming releases of iOS 10, macOS Sierra, watchOS, and tvOS, should be sure to read these updated guidelines.Apple has also announced a couple of c...
How the Apple App Store is Changing Computer Science Curriculums
Wednesday, March 25, 2015 by Ashu Desai
I was a sophomore in high school when Apple launched the App Store. Excited by the idea of building software for a shiny new device, I tried my hand at building apps. My second game - Helicopter - sold 50,000 copies and jumpstarted my career in software development. Although the algorithmic challenges of programming appealed to me, I truly discovered my passion for comp...
App Analytics Report Shows Google Play Market Share is Stagnant While The Apple App Store Sees Slight Gains
Tuesday, May 13, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
While Google Play has seen 38 percent growth for the last 6 months, April showed no gains according to Distimo’s April 2014 Global App Report. The Apple App Store, on the other hand, saw slight gains and an increase in market share. The report shows that the market as a whole grew by around 1.5% with total market share distribution at 39 percent for Google Pla...
Is The Apple App Store Only Showing Top 200 Apps by Category Now
Thursday, December 5, 2013 by Richard Harris
Over the last 24 hours we've had some reports come in that Apple is now only displaying the Top 200 results when sorting by category in the app store. Normally filtering by category would display 300 results, but something has changed though we do not have an official notice from Apple as of yet.We tested several categories on different devices and only see the Top 200 ...
Report Shows Apple App Store Still Reigns Supreme in Marketing Opportunities for App Developers
Wednesday, November 20, 2013 by Stuart Parkerson
Which app store should app developers target their marketing efforts? How mature are the three major app stores, and, more importantly, how good could they be? The answers may be gleaned from a recent report from Pfeiffer Consulting, a consulting firm that provides strategic analysis on emerging trends and technologies.
The report analyzes the three major app providers...
Guide: How to Publish from Xcode 5 To The Apple App Store
Friday, October 25, 2013 by Richard Harris
The process of publishing an app from Xcode has a changed a bit with xCode 5, and if you aren't savvy to the change you could get locked into an endless circle of "no identities are available for signing", or Xcode crashes. We have broken down how to get an app to the Apple App store including the latest changes in just 9 steps;1. Verify that you are using a distributio...
Distimo Reports Strong Movement in App Markets: Disney's “Where's My Water 2” App Rockets to Top of Apple App Store
Wednesday, September 18, 2013 by Stuart Parkerson
It was an interesting week in the app markets according to Distimo’s Top Noteworthy Apps, Week 37 report of the most notable new apps and movements in the app stores.
Each week Distimo’ provides an overview of the top performing apps based on relative growth and absolute achievements in downloads or revenues on a global level. Distimo’s AppIQ is the engine behind the d...
Are Mobile App Rankings In the Apple App Store Starting to Reflect Ratings
Monday, August 26, 2013 by Stuart Parkerson
In his report “Is Apple Finally Adding Ratings Into Ranking Factors?” Fisku’s Tom Cummings is reporting that very possibility.
Cummings’ says, “After some in-depth (and still ongoing) analysis by our Performance Labs team, we can conclude that Apple is testing changes to the iTunes ranking algorithm. What we don’t yet know is the entirety and permanence of these...
Apple App Store screenshot rule now in effect
Wednesday, January 9, 2013 by Richard Harris
In the iTunes connect developer portal for iOS developers, uploading screenshots used to be a matter of putting them in when the app launches – but still having the option to change them later if need be.But Apple has ended the ability to change or swap out screenshots wants your app is approved. So just like your maiden information you will need to make sure that your ...
Apple App Store Stats for 2012
Monday, January 7, 2013 by Richard Harris
The latest statistics are out from Apple in regards to their App Store downloads and interactivity. The report says there have been over 40 billion app downloads since the App Store's inception, and 20 billion of those downloads were in 2012 alone!
This certainly testifies to the fact that the mobile economy is still growing by astronomical numbers, and...
